It’s hard to get too excited by pilot season, because every year, they cut the one show I am just OBSESSED with (this year: see midseason replacements Bent and BFF). But Nashville is one I forgot about until now and if ABC doesn’t do their usual heavy on the schmaltz, I think it could have a chance. Maybe!

Of course, I cried my way through Country Strong so perhaps I don’t have the best idea of what is good for me or the American public.

Hannah: I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time and thinks I’m the best person in the world and wants to have sex with only me.”

…OR THE OTHER (MAD MEN 1966)

“Pete: Why do they give you a glimmer of hope in the midst of rejection? A thread to hang onto? A misplaced word? A suggestion for the future? Under a court of law, it would look like an accident but it’s not.

Harry: So we’re not talking about Megan and we’re not talking about Trudy.